If I recall the presentation by our colleagues from B.C., they were making reference to $5 million for training, exclusive of system costs. When we look to see what the average system cost is for financial purposes in the federal government, it's in the neighbourhood of $300 million to $350 million per year currently. We have to take all this into consideration. We also made reference to the fact that we must invest every year to upgrade our system to bring in new functionalities, and so on, so I'm not uncomfortable with the number that was quoted by our colleagues from PricewaterhouseCoopers when they said it could be up to $150 million for the training and system costs. That would be the order of magnitude.
Our colleagues in B.C. didn't say $5 million, but they didn't tell us what the amount was for the systems. Also, they have one platform. We have a different scale. If I recall, the B.C. government is at about $30 billion, give or take. We're close to $220 billion, and then there's a quantum leap at some point, where the complexity is such that it's difficult to just extrapolate one on one.
But that would be in the zone, based on the $300 million per year that we spend already on systems.